PAS 2025: VÆRIDION to work with Evolito on developing the electric propulsion system for its Microliner aircraft

VÆRIDION have agreed to col­lab­o­rate on the devel­op­ment of an elec­tric engine propul­sion solu­tion for its Micro­lin­er air­craft with Evoli­to. The agree­ment was announced at this week’s Paris Air Show.

Both com­pa­nies have a shared com­mit­ment to fur­ther advance the inte­gra­tion of Evolito’s high-per­for­mance elec­tric motors and con­trollers into VÆRIDION’s propul­sion sys­tem archi­tec­ture.

They will con­duct a com­pre­hen­sive eval­u­a­tion of the mul­ti­dis­ci­pli­nary aspects rel­e­vant to the inte­gra­tion of Evoli­to’s tech­nol­o­gy with VÆRIDION’s inno­v­a­tive mul­ti-engine, sin­gle pro­peller pow­er­plant sys­tem. With this inno­v­a­tive archi­tec­ture, VÆRIDION is paving the way for cer­ti­fi­ca­tion-ready pro­to­type flights by 2027, aim­ing for its first com­mer­cial flight in 2030.

Markus Kochs- Käm­per, CTO of VÆRIDION, said: “This col­lab­o­ra­tion was unveiled in tan­dem with the pro­gramme launch and marks a sig­nif­i­cant step for­ward on the path to the first flight. Among the glob­al sup­ply-chain for elec­tric propul­sion sys­tems we’ve sur­veyed, Evoli­to offers a win­ning com­bi­na­tion of mar­ket-ready tech­nol­o­gy and man­u­fac­tur­ing capa­bil­i­ty.

“Their pro­found tech­no­log­i­cal exper­tise, com­bined with man­u­fac­tur­ing know-how and aero­space cre­den­tials, present a sig­nif­i­cant oppor­tu­ni­ty to joint­ly explore and inte­grate a high torque den­si­ty, light­weight propul­sion solu­tion for our Micro­lin­er. This makes them
a com­pelling sup­pli­er who can deliv­er at scale and to the aero­space stan­dards we require for our zero-emis­sions region­al air­craft.”

The part­ner­ship rep­re­sents a log­i­cal pro­gres­sion fol­low­ing the suc­cess­ful com­ple­tion of a Pre-Appli­ca­tion Con­tract (PAC) between VÆRIDION and the Euro­pean Union Avi­a­tion Safe­ty Agency (EASA) in 2024, which aimed at mit­i­gat­ing cer­ti­fi­ca­tion chal­lenges asso­ci­at­ed with this inno­v­a­tive propul­sion archi­tec­ture.

The com­bi­na­tion of Evolito’s lead­ing torque den­si­ty engine per­for­mance with the enhanced safe­ty pro­vid­ed by the mul­ti-engine sin­gle pro­peller archi­tec­ture is poised to achieve unprece­dent­ed lev­els of propul­sion per­for­mance and oper­a­tional safe­ty.

Dr. Chris Har­ris, CEO and Co-founder of Evoli­to: “As avi­a­tion moves toward cli­mate-con­scious solu­tions, col­lab­o­ra­tions like this sig­nal the crit­i­cal role of cross-indus­try part­ner­ships in advanc­ing scal­able, cer­ti­fied elec­tric flight.

“By join­ing forces ear­ly, our com­pa­nies are accel­er­at­ing the devel­op­ment of elec­tric propul­sion tech­nolo­gies that meet the per­for­mance, effi­cien­cy, and reg­u­la­to­ry demands of this next-gen­er­a­tion region­al air­craft.”

Evoli­to has been at the fore­front of the elec­tric propul­sion indus­try, set­ting new. stan­dards as the first com­pa­ny to receive Design Organ­i­sa­tion Approval (DOA) from the UK Civ­il Avi­a­tion Author­i­ty for elec­tric propul­sion sys­tems.

Designed with cer­ti­fi­ca­tion and man­u­fac­tura­bil­i­ty, along with per­for­mance and effi­cien­cy in mind, Evolito’s tech­nol­o­gy stands apart from it’s competitors—making it unique­ly suit­ed to pow­er the future of elec­tric avi­a­tion.